The Marrek Group Weekly Online Newsletter

Audie McCarthy founder and president of Marrek Solutions Inc. Click here for Audie's bio

Lisa Dennie Training Associate Click here for Lisa's Bio

Sherry Pelkey Marketing Coordinator & Trainer Atlantic Canada Click here for Sherry's Bio Contact:

January 24th, 2008
Guest Speaker: Richard Koroscil
President & CEO Hamilton Airport
Location: Galileo's Gardens
Time: 11:30 am - 1:15 pm
RSVP Required
Contact Connie at 905 664 4000 for more information.

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Workshops

Mohawk College- (Tools for Business Series)

The T4B Fall Calendar is now available on line..

Problem Solving – January 21 - Fennell Campus

This one-day workshop addresses two major factors of problem solving: flexibility and creativity. Participants will use these factors to examine key problem-solving techniques, such as examining assumptions, modeling, shifting paradigms and drilling down.

Mastering Communications with Personality Profiling – January 22 – Fennell Campus

This one-day workshop explores the communication process and provides an understanding of the communication skills required to effectively interact with fellow employees and staff. You will gain an understanding different personality types, and what motivates each personality to engage in effective communication.

Managing Performance – January 22 – Fennell Campus

This one-day workshop guides participants through employee motivation and goal-setting, coaching and performance feedback. Participants have the opportunity to practice coaching and providing employee feedback in a non-threatening environment.

Inspiring Multi-Generational Teams – January 24 – Fennell Campus

If you are managing more than one generation of workers, this one-day workshop is for you! You will learn to effectively motivate and inspire all of the generations and distinguish between managing and leading to help all your team members work together effectively.

Developing Cohesive Teams – January 25 – Brantford Campus

This one-day workshop explores steps for effective team building. You will learn about recruitment selection, team dynamics, and performance evaluation. You will identify critical success factors in team building and how to use the techniques to help your team pull together to reach its full potential.

Core Skills for Team Leaders, Supervisors and Managers – January 29/30 – Fennell

This two-day workshop outlines the characteristics of a successful supervisor. Participants examine the different communication styles, skills, knowledge and attitudes that are required to be an effective supervisor. The workshop will culminate with individuals preparing a personal development plan.

Designing Employee Job Descriptions – January 31 – Fennell Campus

This one – day workshop has the participants start the job description process by identifying the key responsibilities of the position and then further breaking the responsibilities into tasks. The participant will then determine the skills, knowledge and attitudes required to complete the tasks.

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Tips

Tips for Setting and Reaching Your Goals in 2008

Take stock of what worked and did not work for you last year.

Set goals to build on the things that worked.

Reflect on why some things did not work for you.

Base your goals on your deepest beliefs, values and passions.

Focus on two or three and write them down.

Keep them in front of you – ALL YEAR.

For each goal, write down one thing you can do right away.

Each day, take one action that will lead to reaching a goal.

Once you have taken a step, write down the next one. Repeat!

Celebrate every accomplishment, no matter how small to keep moving!

Click here for our New Year Action Plan Template

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